Sat 29 Jan 2022, 14:15
After fourteen minutes of deadlock at the Mooragh Park it was Ramsey B who first troubled the scorers. Slow ruck ball ten metres inside the Nomads half was shipped to Ramsey youngster Ross Quayle. He stepped into the tackle but popped the ball beautifully to a charging Connor Cracknell who had picked a great running line. He gathered without breaking stride and scythed through the Nomads defence to score.
Five minutes later it was all square. Ramsey had looked threatening and were working the ball around five metres out from the Nomads line. The southerners’ skipper Mike Quayle read the Ramsey move well and intercepted. He made ten metres on his own before he was brought down. There was however quick ruck ball for Nomads and they spun it left to wing Tony Quinn and his pace took him clear with a little hitch kick to avoid Al Christian’s last ditch tap tackle.
As the half hour approached Nomads got their noses in front. Orry Watterson had taken the ball into heavy traffic inside the Ramsey twenty two and after a couple of unsuccessful thrusts, Percy Hampton squeezed over from close range for a 10-5 lead. Within five minutes it was 15-5. Nomads earned themselves a scrum just outside the Ramsey twenty two. With a solid font five effort giving clean steady ball number eight Harry Brereton launched from the base of the scrum. He sucked in two defenders and with Pat Creer and Steve Downe in support he was spoiled for choice with his offload. He found Creer who finished off neatly to leave Nomads ten in front at the break.
Ramsey skipper Darragh Pilkington missed a penalty chance early in the second half as the game settled into another period of stalemate, which wasn’t broken for twenty five minutes when Nomads gained an attacking line out. Neil Collister overthrew his jumper but found Conor McCaughan at the tail. He gathered the ball and set off for the Ramsey line. As he was tackled he flipped the ball out of the back of his hand to the supporting Percy Hampton who went in under the posts for a 20-5 lead.
With just over ten to play Ramsey had to chase the game. Scrum half Nathan Robson on his Ramsey senior debut, darted through a gap in the Nomads ruck defence he beat the first tackler and stepped inside second row Ian Hargreaves. Hargreaves instinctively stuck his arm out but made contact with Robson’s head which left referee Gareth Hinge no option but to issue a red card.
Against fourteen men Ramsey piled on the pressure and with seven minutes to go they finally got over the line. Number eight Chris King broke from the base of a five-metre scrum and exploited the extra space to get over the line to make it 20-10.
The Ramsey hopes were however cruelly dashed in the final three minutes as the fourteen men ran in three unanswered tries at the other end. Liam Savage marked his senior debut with the first of the three which he converted himself. He was quickly followed in by Tony Quinn who now had three tries from his first two senior appearances and the final score traded youth for experience when Orry Watterson trundled in on the right wing after neat interplay with Conor McCaughan.
Five minutes later it was all square. Ramsey had looked threatening and were working the ball around five metres out from the Nomads line. The southerners’ skipper Mike Quayle read the Ramsey move well and intercepted. He made ten metres on his own before he was brought down. There was however quick ruck ball for Nomads and they spun it left to wing Tony Quinn and his pace took him clear with a little hitch kick to avoid Al Christian’s last ditch tap tackle.
As the half hour approached Nomads got their noses in front. Orry Watterson had taken the ball into heavy traffic inside the Ramsey twenty two and after a couple of unsuccessful thrusts, Percy Hampton squeezed over from close range for a 10-5 lead. Within five minutes it was 15-5. Nomads earned themselves a scrum just outside the Ramsey twenty two. With a solid font five effort giving clean steady ball number eight Harry Brereton launched from the base of the scrum. He sucked in two defenders and with Pat Creer and Steve Downe in support he was spoiled for choice with his offload. He found Creer who finished off neatly to leave Nomads ten in front at the break.
Ramsey skipper Darragh Pilkington missed a penalty chance early in the second half as the game settled into another period of stalemate, which wasn’t broken for twenty five minutes when Nomads gained an attacking line out. Neil Collister overthrew his jumper but found Conor McCaughan at the tail. He gathered the ball and set off for the Ramsey line. As he was tackled he flipped the ball out of the back of his hand to the supporting Percy Hampton who went in under the posts for a 20-5 lead.
With just over ten to play Ramsey had to chase the game. Scrum half Nathan Robson on his Ramsey senior debut, darted through a gap in the Nomads ruck defence he beat the first tackler and stepped inside second row Ian Hargreaves. Hargreaves instinctively stuck his arm out but made contact with Robson’s head which left referee Gareth Hinge no option but to issue a red card.
Against fourteen men Ramsey piled on the pressure and with seven minutes to go they finally got over the line. Number eight Chris King broke from the base of a five-metre scrum and exploited the extra space to get over the line to make it 20-10.
The Ramsey hopes were however cruelly dashed in the final three minutes as the fourteen men ran in three unanswered tries at the other end. Liam Savage marked his senior debut with the first of the three which he converted himself. He was quickly followed in by Tony Quinn who now had three tries from his first two senior appearances and the final score traded youth for experience when Orry Watterson trundled in on the right wing after neat interplay with Conor McCaughan.
